Hard drives, except for helium-filled ones, actually have an air hole in them with a filter attached to it so they can keep enough air in the drive so the heads can properly fly over the disk surface. Completely possible that moisture ingress would be an issue after years of sitting in a landfill in who knows what. It is a darn tiny hole though.
Not with guns, or knives, or even pens, but with neglected big macs drying out on a chafing dish.
Was thinking of getting one just to do that a few weeks ago.
Learn to test for things like lead and other contaminants that one can test for at home, as another method.
Not particularly great for the cat, either.
Literally not how it works at all. The body knows the amount of nicotine it wants and the smoker will smoke until that “need” is fulfilled. Weaning off nicotine is easiest in tiny amounts over time, or a few weeks of cold turkey hell.
The US has been gutting vaping as an alternative too, which forced more back on analogs. The US doesn’t want to stop smokers from smoking anyway. Lots of tax revenue.
Best thing too, the “quit” stuff like lozenges, patches, and gum, are often higher nicotine levels than a smoker is used to. The “low” dose products are for pack-a-day smokers and the “high” dose products are for 2-pack-a-day smokers. So smoker tries to quit, can’t, and ends up smoking more cigs when they return.
It’s a vicious cycle, and it seems also a natural method to combat ADHD, so it’s completely possible some people get on cigarettes, suddenly their brain is functioning correctly, and they’re addicted for life twice over.
Feel free to use your favorite internet search engine for further info. That’s what they are there for. (The last bit with ADHD is new-ish? So not sure what data is available there.)
There’s a reason it was Ünderland in Venture Bros.
Let’s work the problem.
In the race to the bottom, we’re taking the charge! USA! USA!
Yet it is so surprisingly easy to not use any of them.
People thought underground coal fires burned forever.
There is no high speed, it’s not a hyperloop, it’s just some Teslas bumbling through tunnels, sometimes successfully.
Positive spin, ish:
He had to, he waited until the last minute hoping our government would function. Every other tech company already jumped the orange bone weeks ago.
Every tech company is paying the Mafia Don (lovingly called Orange Big Mac) their protection money as the uneducated MAGAts are terrified of technology and will be gunning to gut them.
That he waited until the last minute shows it was not a decision he contemplated lightly.
I’ve not been fond of how he’s run the fruit company since SJ passed, but, his behavior has been nothing if not predictable and thematic. I know in that position I’d be worried about me and mine, while also contemplating how that will ripple down to millions of humans being tracked and controlled by my technology.
A tale as old as America. Some 1963 history for y’all:
Kimble and a group of farm workers are surrounded in the hills by a huge fire and he must reveal that he’s a doctor in order to save the life of a pregnant, illegal immigrant.
More plot details from that page:
Dr. Kimble, harvesting onions at an onion field, faces hostility from the other farm workers. A number of them are Mexican laborers who are suspicious about his presence - after all, he doesn’t look like one of them. The workers are recruited to help fight a forest fire. When a pregnant woman starts to feel labor pains, the nurse discovers she can’t have a natural delivery. They need an obstetrician to perform a cesarean section. But with fire all around them, and the roads blocked, it’s impossible to get to a hospital in time.
2020 proved it out for many US jobs these days. Nobody doing a desk job goes into the office anymore. Remaining road traffic is people that have physical jobs. Desk people are plugging up the road, because their employers would rather see a body in an expensive office chair than the effective reality they already had proved out by force.
But yeah, also public transport would sure be nice.
Right now, people are being told to imagine a world without certain groups of people
You hit the nail on the head right there. It always boils down to focusing large groups of people against something, and for something, and often that something is people.
We need to fix the core concept of being against people. I actually like the concept of H1-B for example, it gives people in worse economic standing a leg-up.
However, setting up a system to game domestic work against foreign work, with the main focus being allowing the corpos to lie, and not pay fair wages, in exchange for slave labor isn’t a system.
How about MANS.
Make America Not Suck.
Their whole shtick would jive with a thing called MANS too.
It’s a weird one, China’s constant hacking attempts seem annoying, but then their consumer products sold in America are generally decent because they want to sell goods. So it makes one think, in China, are American products suspect because America tries to spy on them constantly? Have we hacked their entire telecom infra and they run news campaigns about how Evil America Broke The Phones? Is this a scenario where these large dominant power nations all do the same crap to each other but purport to their own citizens that they’re actually the good guys?
From there then, which would a citizen of a nation-state really trust? The software written by their own companies, with their own internal state-sponsored censorship and spying? Or that of another nation-state? Seems in almost every case, using the software from the other nation-state would actually allow more “freedom” - which is…weird to contemplate.
One exception I can think of, was that Kaspersky was very good antimalware software, but I caught it on several occasions completely blind to Russian malware software. Other AV software caught it, but Kaspersky just went deer-in-headlights and let it pass through. So perhaps, this isn’t a black-and-white scenario.
In the case of social medias though, I’d say, consume as many different sources as one can. Sum up and divide to get the average. Likely, somewhere in there is where the actual truth lies.
And you thought DMCA notices were annoying!
“If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.”